10 reasons to buy an RCA Victor Radio

E.E. Long Piano Company touted 10 big improvements as selling points of this new RCA Victor Radio in this ad from October 12, 1931. Here they are but they are not as amusing as the lists David Letterman reads.

RCA Victor was a top of the line radio when the cabinet was as important as the electronics in 1931.

Of course, the two weird improvements are the Automatic volume control, and the Stethoscope-tested speaker (how many deafened employees were created in that test?). These days such an item in mint condition would sell in the thousands of dollars.